Abora v2.5

[AnimatedGTVR]

Abora OS v2.5.0 Changelog

Abora v2.5 is a quality-of-life release focused on making the installed system easier to manage.

New

• Added abora welcome for first-step status and quick actions.
• Added abora doctor to check Abora system health.
• Added abora recovery for rollback, rebuild, Flathub repair, and support reports.
• Added abora desktop list and abora desktop set <profile>.
• Added a top-level abora command router.
• Added a one-time first-shell welcome status after install.
• Added make preflight for release checks.

ANIX

• Added profile switching:

  anix switch nix gaming

• Added rollback helpers:

  anix rollback nix
  anix rollback nix minimal

• Added local snapshots:

  anix save

• Added anix doctor.
• Added named flake profiles: stable, minimal, gaming, creator, developer.
• Snapshots stay local by default.
• ANIX warns before saving files that look like they may contain secrets.

Apps

• App catalog is now 52 apps across 6 categories.
• New Gaming category: Steam, Lutris, Heroic, Bottles, MangoHud, GameMode.
• New System category: GParted, Disks, Timeshift, Flameshot, btop, Mission Center.
• Added more picks like Chromium, Bitwarden, Discord, Slack, Zoom, RawTherapee, Zed, tmux, Alacritty, Ghostty, Lazygit, and Docker.

System

• Flatpak is enabled by default.
• Flathub is added automatically on first boot when networking is available.
• Updates can track stable or unstable.
• Updates now offer to save an ANIX snapshot before rebuilding.
• Abora tools now share the same terminal UI style.

Testing

• Run make preflight before release.
• Hardware testing should cover abora welcome, abora doctor, abora recovery, abora desktop, anix switch, and anix rollback.

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This discussion was created from the release Abora v2.5.

[AnimatedGTVR]

ISSUES WITHIN V2.5, BECAUSE OF THIS USE V2 INSTEAD.